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“The Messenger’s Slipper”
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EXPOsición de PiNAS is an international group art exhibition that endeavors to produce innovative collaborations among emerging contemporary artists with exclusive representation from different countries in America, Canada, New England, France, Italy, India and the Philippines. This large presentation of a highly diverse set of works is seen via the medium of print reproductions of the individual original art pieces. The historic Museo Dabawenyo, situated in the heart of the Durian City of the Southern Philippines, offers an environment adapted to the varied creations and styles that exhibit organizers target to expose to the local and international art scenes.
Oil on canvas- 22″ x 28″ – This piece is a collection of Norse mythology and the Filipino Day of the Dead: Araw ng mga Patay with some obvious Spanish sugar skull influence. Also note the Egyptian sword from my Arabic horse roots. The symbols are Baybayin, a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system. I’ll leave it up to you to translate them.
Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it attains the quality of a National Holiday. The celebration takes place on November 1st and 2nd, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints’ Day (November 1) and All Souls’ Day (November 2). Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts.
In Norse mythology, Sleipnir (Old Norse “slippy”[1] or “the slipper”[2]) is an eight-legged horse. Sleipnir is Odin‘s steed, is the child of Loki and Svaðilfari, is described as the best of all horses, and is sometimes ridden to the location of Hel.
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